THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATOR The Marketplace for International Education www.tieonline.com TIE g Contact TIE ......................... 2 AISH .................................... 4 News in Brief ..................... 10 PTC ................................... 11 TTC, BTC, CTC ............. 12-13 Grade 10 students at Bavarian International School engage in a collaborative sculpture project with professional visiting artist Gavin Worth to create “Sophia,” a beautiful 3D wire sculpture inspired by the goddess of wisdom (photo: Gavin Worth). Lessons in Learning ............ 15 The Marshall Memo ........... 19 Letters to the Editor ........... 20 College Counseling ............ 25 School News ...................... 27 Appointments ............... 31-35 DoDDs .............................. 37 Accreditation ..................... 38 Book Releases .................... 40 School Advertisers ............. 41 INSIDE THIS ISSUE g Vol. 30 No. 1 October 2015 ... continued on p. 6 Bias Persists Against and Among Girls ... continued on p. 23 Introducing 2015’s National Distinguished Principals ... continued on p. 22 By Tiffani Razavi, Staff Writer A group of researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Edu- cation recently reported findings from a study of almost 20,000 mid- dle and high school students, in- dicating that gender biases persist among teens and some parents. The report addresses percep- tions of leadership and gender, ex- amining both explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious) biases among adolescent girls and boys, as well as parents. The overall focus of the project, known as “Making Caring Com- mon,” is on developing young people’s ability “to appreciate and care for those who are different them – and biases are commonly a major obstacle to appreciation and caring for those of different genders, races, and cultures.” This particular piece of research helps e-NABLEing Kids Through 3D-Printed Prostheses By Rich Lehrer An education revolution is oc- curring in a small number of class- rooms, makerspaces, and tech- nology departments around the world. While many schools are promoting a greater reliance on virtual experiences for students and developing something akin to a “technology for technology’s sake” mentality, a volunteer group of tech aficionados, hackers, hu- manitarians, designers, and engi- neers is turning the ed-tech world on its ear and redefining our sense of the potential of technology to provide meaningful and real- world experiences for students. “e-NABLE,” a group of vol- unteers committed to globally crowdsourcing the design, pro- duction, and dissemination of cheap, 3D-printed prostheses, is empowering people around the world to create tools to help oth- ers. Teachers searching for truly authentic projects for their stu- ... continued on p. 6 ... continued on p. 18 By Connie Buford The National Association of Ele- mentary School Principals (NAESP) each year sponsors the National Distinguished Principals Award Program. This program honors exceptional elementary and mid- dle school principals (as well as heads of small schools which do not have principals) from each of the 50 states, the District of Co- Awardees Catarina Song Chen and Michael Schooler (photos: NAESP). lumbia, Puerto Rico, Department of Defense Schools, and Ameri- can overseas schools assisted by the Office of Overseas Schools, U.S. Department of State. The two award winners for 2015 from the U.S. Department of State-assisted schools are Catarina Song Chen from the American School of Belo Horizonte (EABH), Brazil, and Mi- chael Schooler from the Interna- Goddess of Wisdom Graces BIS By Meadow Hilley At over two meters in height and five in width, Sophia is a big presence on campus. With eyes and hands raised to the sky, as if to contemplate and receive di- vine wisdom, this monumental steel sculpture designed by artist Gavin Worth in collaboration with thirty tenth-grade students from the Bavarian International School now occupies a permanent place between the wildflowers and blue skies of Haimhausen, Germany. Inspired by the personification of wisdom from antiquity who turned ignorance into fire, So- phia resembles a freestanding line drawing, a style characteristic of Report finds girls hold each other back Children’s Voices Heard Globally By Anne Keeling Over 33,000 students from schools around the globe this year shared in one common learning experience: to master one of the vocal parts for a new song called “Listen To Us!” “Listen To Us!” united young people around the world as part of the Voices Around The World project. This was the third year of the project and involved over 1,400 national, independent, and inter- national schools, and culminated in the release of the “Listen To Us!” CD in July. The CD features the voices of over 5,000 students from recordings that were made by schools—including many inter- national schools—in 48 different countries including Cambodia, Israel, Iceland, Brazil, and Turkey. All proceeds from the sales of the CD plus a DVD are this year going to support schools in Tanza- nia that are in need of basic learn- ing resources. The Voices Around The World project, which is in its third year, was spearheaded by former music teacher and international school principal Laurie Lewin, in col- laboration with singer/songwriter Howard Jones. Laurie travelled to many schools to support them with their rehearsals and record- ings of “Listen To Us!”, and to en- courage students to think about the words they were singing. “Young people really want to make a difference,” he said. “They want to work together for change. Many who we’ve spoken to, from all around the world, show they’re absolutely passionate about the meaning behind the words of the song. You can see it in their faces and hear it in their voices while they’re singing. Whatever their age, participating in such a project Laurie Lewin with pupils at Otjikondo School (photo: Voices).
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THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORThe Marketplace for International Education www.tieonline.comTIE g
Contact TIE ......................... 2
AISH .................................... 4
News in Brief ..................... 10
PTC ................................... 11
TTC, BTC, CTC ............. 12-13
Grade 10 students at Bavarian International School engage in a collaborative sculpture project with professional visiting artist Gavin Worth to create “Sophia,” a beautiful 3D wire sculpture inspired by the goddess of wisdom (photo: Gavin Worth).
Lessons in Learning ............ 15
The Marshall Memo ........... 19
Letters to the Editor ........... 20
College Counseling ............ 25
School News ...................... 27
Appointments ............... 31-35
DoDDs .............................. 37
Accreditation ..................... 38
Book Releases .................... 40
School Advertisers ............. 41
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
gVol. 30 No. 1 October 2015
... continued on p. 6
Bias Persists Against and Among Girls
... continued on p. 23
Introducing 2015’s National Distinguished Principals
... continued on p. 22
By Tiffani Razavi, Staff Writer A group of researchers from the
Harvard Graduate School of Edu-cation recently reported findings from a study of almost 20,000 mid-dle and high school students, in-dicating that gender biases persist among teens and some parents.
The report addresses percep-tions of leadership and gender, ex-amining both explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious) biases among adolescent girls and boys, as well as parents.
The overall focus of the project, known as “Making Caring Com-mon,” is on developing young people’s ability “to appreciate and care for those who are different them – and biases are commonly a major obstacle to appreciation and caring for those of different genders, races, and cultures.” This particular piece of research helps
e-NABLEing Kids Through 3D-Printed Prostheses
By Rich Lehrer
An education revolution is oc-curring in a small number of class-rooms, makerspaces, and tech-nology departments around the world. While many schools are promoting a greater reliance on virtual experiences for students and developing something akin to a “technology for technology’s sake” mentality, a volunteer group of tech aficionados, hackers, hu-manitarians, designers, and engi-neers is turning the ed-tech world on its ear and redefining our sense of the potential of technology to provide meaningful and real-world experiences for students.
“e-NABLE,” a group of vol-unteers committed to globally crowdsourcing the design, pro-duction, and dissemination of cheap, 3D-printed prostheses, is empowering people around the world to create tools to help oth-ers. Teachers searching for truly authentic projects for their stu-
... continued on p. 6 ... continued on p. 18
By Connie Buford
The National Association of Ele-mentary School Principals (NAESP) each year sponsors the National Distinguished Principals Award Program. This program honors exceptional elementary and mid-dle school principals (as well as heads of small schools which do not have principals) from each of the 50 states, the District of Co-
Awardees Catarina Song Chen and Michael Schooler (photos: NAESP).
lumbia, Puerto Rico, Department of Defense Schools, and Ameri-can overseas schools assisted by the Office of Overseas Schools, U.S. Department of State. The two award winners for 2015 from the U.S. Department of State-assisted schools are Catarina Song Chen from the American School of Belo Horizonte (EABH), Brazil, and Mi-chael Schooler from the Interna-
Goddess of Wisdom Graces BIS
By Meadow Hilley
At over two meters in height and five in width, Sophia is a big presence on campus. With eyes and hands raised to the sky, as if to contemplate and receive di-vine wisdom, this monumental steel sculpture designed by artist Gavin Worth in collaboration with thirty tenth-grade students from the Bavarian International School now occupies a permanent place between the wildflowers and blue skies of Haimhausen, Germany.
Inspired by the personification of wisdom from antiquity who turned ignorance into fire, So-phia resembles a freestanding line drawing, a style characteristic of
Report finds girls hold each other back
Children’s Voices Heard Globally
By Anne Keeling
Over 33,000 students from schools around the globe this year shared in one common learning experience: to master one of the vocal parts for a new song called “Listen To Us!”
“Listen To Us!” united young people around the world as part of the Voices Around The World project. This was the third year of the project and involved over 1,400 national, independent, and inter-national schools, and culminated in the release of the “Listen To Us!” CD in July. The CD features the voices of over 5,000 students from recordings that were made
by schools—including many inter-national schools—in 48 different countries including Cambodia, Israel, Iceland, Brazil, and Turkey.
All proceeds from the sales of the CD plus a DVD are this year going to support schools in Tanza-nia that are in need of basic learn-ing resources.
The Voices Around The World project, which is in its third year, was spearheaded by former music teacher and international school principal Laurie Lewin, in col-laboration with singer/songwriter Howard Jones. Laurie travelled to many schools to support them with their rehearsals and record-ings of “Listen To Us!”, and to en-courage students to think about the words they were singing.
“Young people really want to make a difference,” he said. “They want to work together for change. Many who we’ve spoken to, from all around the world, show they’re absolutely passionate about the meaning behind the words of the song. You can see it in their faces and hear it in their voices while they’re singing. Whatever their age, participating in such a project
Laurie Lewin with pupils at Otjikondo School (photo: Voices).
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power for next year’s value-added scores, compared with conducting just one observation. Observations also yield higher predictive power for next year’s value-added scores when they are conducted by evaluators from out-side the teacher’s own school.
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A 2012 study by Taylor and Tyler explored the impact of evaluation on teaching. They studied midca-reer teachers who were observed in their classrooms four times dur-
ing a school year. The observations were conducted once by the prin-cipal or another school administra-tor, and three times by peer evalu-ators (experienced teachers from other schools who were trained to evaluate). The study found that teachers’ performance increased during the year they were evalu-ated and continued to increase in the following years. Teachers who had been evaluated compared to those who were not evaluated had gains in students’ math test scores, revealing that a student whose teacher is evaluated can expect to see student academic gains. Performance improvement was highest among teachers who had previously lower performance and student test scores. Additionally, it is important to note that evalua-tions are more effective when they allow for quality feedback from observers, discussion of effective teaching practices, and opportuni-ties for teachers to self-reflect. l
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e-NABLEing Kidsdents are being drawn to this work in droves.
In 2011, South African carpenter Richard Van As experienced a trag-ic accident in which he cut off the fingers on his right hand. During his recovery, Van As came across an online video in which American prop maker Ivan Owen presented a large, articulated metal hand. From this, a partnership was born. Collaborating from their respec-tive countries, the two men cre-ated a cheap metal prosthetic for Van As and realized the potential of the solution they had devised.
Following an in-person meet-ing, Van As and Owen continued to work together, eventually pro-ducing the first open-source 3D-designed and printable prosthetic device for children born with up-per limb differences. A successful trial with a young boy named Liam was followed by a video of the project that went viral. The seeds of the revolution had been sown.
Drawing inspiration from this
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initial collaboration, Rochester Institute of Technology professor Jon Schull created “e-NABLE” in 2013. This worldwide movement now consists of over 6,100 passion-ate individuals. It centers on the development and production of new devices and the matching of those possessing 3D printers with those in need of a prosthetic, wit-nessing a near exponential growth in interest over the past two years.
Not surprisingly, teachers were among the first to see the poten-tial in this movement to light cre-ative fires and unlock the desire in others to “do good” in the pro-cess. Since its inception, e-NABLE has attracted the attention of well over 500 educators from for-mal and informal settings around the world who have found in this “mechanical hand maker move-ment” a powerful combination of STEM, design, service, innovation, and project-based learning. It is a means to inspire and motivate a generation of problem solvers and
“humanitarian hackers” commit-ted to making a difference.
In response to increasing inter-est, the organization has recently created the e-NABLE Educators’ Ex-change or e3STEAM, which seeks to create a global collaborative community of like-minded edu-cators, develop an open-source online repository of best e-NABLE educational practices, and provide opportunities for young people around the world to become in-spired by and involved in the “de-sign for good” movement.
I am the coordinator of the e-NABLE Educators’ Exchange. In 2013, my 8th-grade students at Brookwood School in Massachu-setts and I mounted a project in which we produced a 3D-printed hand for my son, Max—a profound experience for all involved. As a National Faculty member of proj-ect-based learning (PBL) purveyor the Buck Institute for Education, I can also attest that in this work we have found an exemplar of the transformative power of PBL. Ad-ditionally, having taught overseas, I am convinced that international schools have a potentially critical role to play in the global scaling of this initiative. The ability to in-volve their students in the creation of cheap, 3D-printed mechanical hands and arms while producing deep educational experiences for all involved may prove to be an excellent fit for any international schools looking to offer opportu-nities for their students to connect to and collaborate with their host countries in meaningful ways.
I encourage all educators who are looking to provide their stu-dents with profound and valuable learning experiences to connect with e-NABLE, whether or not they have access to a 3D printer. For more information about becom-ing involved with e-NABLE, visit http://enablingthefuture.org/, con-tact me personally at [email protected], or view the recording of the official launch of the Educators’ Exchange that took place via Google Hangout On Air on August 26th. Not only is this revolution being televised … it is also being 3D printed!l
8th-grade student, Wesley D’Alelio, presents the “Raptor Hand” that he 3D printed and built from scratch to Max, son of e-NABLE Educators’ Exchange Coordinator Rich Lehrer (photo: Lehrer).
e-NABLE participants (photo: Lehrer).
ASH Grads Make the GradeBy Lesley Murphy
Students at American School of The Hague (ASH) surpassed the majority of their peers around the world this year with respect to both their International Bac-calaureate (IB) Diploma pass rate and their scores on American Ad-vanced Placement (AP) exams.
As a principle, ASH does not pre-select students for the IB di-ploma but rather supports all those with the capabilities, com-mitment, and drive to undertake this challenge. Careful planning and hard work on the part of both students and teachers paid off in 2014–2015, and was reflected in their excellent results.
Whereas the IB minimum pass rate is 24 points out of a possible 45, all 50 ASH diploma candidates passed their IB exams, achieving
well in excess of the global aver-age of 30 points with results rang-ing from 28 to 44 points. Indeed, 92 percent of ASH students scored above the global mean this year.
Six academic courses plus three core requirements—consisting of an independent research paper, creativity, action, service activi-ties, and a course on the Theory of Knowledge—make up the re-quirements for students pursuing the IB Diploma. ASH students not interested in the full diploma pro-gram also have the option of se-lecting one or more IB classes, for which they can earn Course Cer-tificates as non-diploma students, often pairing these with American Advanced Placement (AP) exam courses.
Accessibility to highly rigorous academic classes remains an ASH
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